Re: ANNOUNCE: WWW::YouTube

KEYWORD: YouTube
KEYWORD: Registered
KEYWORD: Adults
KEYWORD: Terms of Use
KEYWORD: Rating System
KEYWORD: Children (Kids)
KEYWORD: Teenagers (Kids)
KEYWORD: group PARENT
KEYWORD: Flagging

Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

"Eric" == Eric R Meyers <ermeyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Eric> You didn't watch? : ( Typical antagonist.

No, I happen to want to ensure that first amendment rights between
consenting adults are protected, and that people (perhaps like you) don't
get to select what I may choose or not choose to watch by *consent*.


YouTube's Registered Adults can do what they want to do on YouTube, as long
as it it within the Terms of Use guidelines that YouTube has defined.

YouTube says it wants its public forum to be "FUN, CLEAN and REAL."

YouTube's flagging simply takes a video out of public view, yet YouTube's
Registered Adults can still explicitly choose to view those videos deemed
inappropriate for viewing by the general public.

If you had said:

I want to help develop a self-rating system so that others who
share my views can filter things within our community.

You would have gotten my support. Instead, you came off as (sorry
if this is not accurate... this is just my impression):

I want to ensure that NOBODY can see the kind of AMAZINGLY AWFUL
STUFF I just found on you-tube (OMG!).


KEYWORD: NOBODY => NO Kids

See, if you aren't censoring me, and you can respect that I may want to
watch the stuff that you abhor, I can also respect that you want to watch
a
different set of things. After all, I consider some forms of country
music
rather obscene, as well as some bagpipe playing. But that doesn't mean I
consider those who listen to it inherently demented, and try to make sure
that *no* website carries bagpipe music.

That's where you are failing in your plea. Speak about it as "I am a
member of group X, and I want to make it easier for OTHER MEMBERS OF GROUP
X to
select what we see on YouTube". You'll get hella more support for that.


Don't make me wrong for wanting different things. Work with me on this.


YouTube has defined all of the operating parameters for their website.

The Rating System included.

I simply wrote a fairly complex prototype that pushes the right buttons at
YouTube to expedite the search and flagging process.

No harm done to your adult rights, because I'm just exercising my own adult
rights to protect my children, that is all.

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